Overtime

The first overtime since the GKC. Nothing spectacular, only about 35 minutes, but overtime nevertheless.

It involved an urgent little job that was being done at the other factory site in Sydney, which didn't have the machinery as at our site, namely the guillotine. The job was supposed to be trimmed smoothly all around, as they were having trouble with the auto trimming thing on the end of the 4 colour machine there. 

The job arrived about half an hour before I was due to finish. It looked a simple 5 minute job, no worries at all. But upon measuring it the whole lot was smaller than A4 (297 by 210mm). They had printed it 2 up on an A3 sheet (297*420) and had shrunk the image to fit the page, trimming it all around there with their trimmer thing on the end of their machine. So the image, and the actual sheet now, were smaller than the A4 size that was required by the client. In short, the dumb fucks who did all this didn't even appear to know what fuckin A4 was FFS!

So the debt head is on the phone with various people, trying to get a bloody decision about what to do. Basically I was left there standing by for about half an hour doing fuck all, whilst they went berserk at each other wondering WTF to do with this fuckin BS job. It was supposed to be utterly perfect and HAD to be in the mail tonight, yet what was supplied to us was already fucked. 

In the end the decision was to take a slight trim off one side to fix it a bit, and send it off to the mailing machines. It would make the 8pm mail truck from Australia Post. 

I still can't believe that such an important job was fucked up in such a simple way; namely that they couldn't get such a basic thing as the size right. For me this is first week of first year apprentice stuff. Yet today they don't seem to have printers involved in the digital machines, and they simply press buttons without a clue.